Midfield No 209548110
Oct. 3, 1977
83rd Year. No.74
Tuesday, January 23,1973
Former President Johnson Dies of Heart Attack at 64
By The Associated Press
Lyndon Baines Johnson, whose presidency in the turbulent 1960s launched the nation on a course of sweeping domestic change, led the war in Vietnam, died Monday.
The 64-year-old Texan, who had a history of heart trouble dating back to 1955, was taken all his ranch in Johnson City, Tex. He also wished that he could go to the Medical Center, San Antonio, an aide said.
He was pronounced dead at 4:43 p.m. CST at San Antonio International Airport by a Johnson City physician identified as Dr David J. Abbott.
President Johnson's cardiologist, Dr George McMurray, said the cause of his death was a lack of oxygen.
An autopsy was performed at Brooke General Hospital by Col. L.R. Hagert, chief of pathology at Brooke. The autopsy showed that Johnson had severe coronary artery disease with complete occlusion or two or three major arterial supplies to the heart.
cent occluded. Compete results of the tortuosity will await further evaluation.
Press aide Tom Johnson announced that the former president will lie in state at the LBJ Library from noon CST today to 8 a.m. Wednesday.
No other funeral arrangements were announced.
President Nixon called Johnson "a dynamic leader, a unique personality and a man of great ability and unshakeable courage."
He ordered all flags on federal buildings
fty at half staff in honor of Johnson for 30 days.
he said." it is particularly heartbreaking that even as our flags fly at half staff in President Truman's memory, another of our leaders has fallen."
The Johnson spokesman, Tom Johnson,
no relation, quoted Johnson's wife Lady
Johnson, the 38th president, was the nation's only living former president, his death coming less than a month after that of Harry S. Truman.
Kissinger, Tho to Talk; Accord Appears Near
"A full honor guard of the U.S. armed forces will be present. Various members of Johnson's former staff will be at his side at Gettysburg this years in public life," said Tom Jones.
A spokesman for the family said the former president was found, lying on his back on the floor of his bedroom, by him. Secret Service agents assigned to him. The agents were in the Secret Service about 100 yards from the ranch house.
PARIS (AP)—Henry Kissinger arrived Monday night for what may be his final negotiating session with Hanoi's Le Duc Tho on a Vietnam cease-fire agreement.
A spokesman said the meeting "has to proceed."
The U.S. presidential adviser made no statement after his flight from Andrews Air Force Base near Washington, and went to Nassau County to minister Tran Van Larn of South Vietnam.
In Washington, Secretary of Defense Melvin R. Laird hinted to newsmen that a cease-fire agreement would be initialized Wednesday.
The center was the site of the four-year-old public peace talks, which were followed by a series of tense clashes.
And White House spokesmen, responding to questions, said they did not believe the death of former President Lyndon B. Johnson would delay Kissinger's Vietnam talks.
Their last meeting, on Jan. 13, concluded their most intensive week of secret bargaining, when they were said to have established the broad outlines of an accord.
American officials said Kissinger would confer with Lam again Tuesday morning prior to his first meeting with The in the Arc de Triomphe Conference Center near the Arc de Triomphe.
Kissinger's current trip to Paris is his 24 mission in search of peace in Vietnam. He and Theo have met 21 times for a total of 38 days since the invasion. He dedicated on Oct. 26 that "peace is at hand."
Tuesday's talks at the conference center—the old Majestic Hotel building—will be the first meeting of the two negotiators on neutral ground. Previous sessions have been held at sites provided by one side or the other.
After dedicating a Pentagon corridor to the memory of an Air Force general, Laird was asked by reporters for information on the return of prisoners of war.
"We've told you all that we can until after Wednesday." Lola relied.
It was perhaps the firrmest clue that yet
is the target date for initializing
unaccess.
This course also has the class as the initialing date in Communist high-command documents reported captured in South Vietnam Sunday.
These were among the bits of evidence cropping up at home and abroad to reinforce reports by sources that Nixon has set about building a Vietnam agreement this week.
Kissinger, Nixon's national security affairs adviser, smiled and waved at newsmen standing in the rain as he boarded the blue, silver and white jet from the presidential fleet at midmorning after a brief no departure statement, and the White House continued its steadfast refusal to discuss any aspect of the Vietnam situation.
Bird as saying after her husband's death,
"His health seemed no different than it had been recently. He seemed a bit quieter but was in good spirits."
Tom Johnson said at a news conference that the former president, who usually took a nap after lunch, called the ranch swiftly and told him he needed that an agent be sent to his bedroom.
Agents E6 Noland and Harry Harris
with a portable resuscitor two mi-
digits.
"They found Johnson lying on his back on the floor next to his bed." Tom Johnson
Noland applied mouth-to-mouth resuscitation, Joynson said, and Col. George McGrannahan, a Brooke cardiologist personal physician at Northwestern University.
At 3:54 p.m. CST Secret Service agent Mike Howard, whom Johnson originally had asked for, arrived in the former president's bedroom and applied external heart surgery later. Johnson was placed on a plane and flown to San Antonio, Tom Johnson said.
The three agents, Dr. Abbott, pilot Barney Hewitt and Mrs. Dave Malachek, wife of the LBJ ranch foreman, were aboard the plane. Tom Johnson said.
Johnson's last stay in the hospital was 74-J2-27 when he experienced chest pains which doctors said were not a heart attack. He returned to work three days after the hospital he is in the last three months.
Johnson made his last major public appearance Jan. 16 at the inauguration of Gov.
Mrs. Johnson was at their apartment above the KTBCT-VT studies in Austin when she learned of the former president's attack and flew here. She left the hospital around 6 p.m. where she went into conference with Jesse Kellum, a long-time friend of the family, and Laci and Pat Nugent, her daughter and son-in-law.
Johnson was thrust into the White House after the assassination of John F. Kennedy on Nov. 22, 1963 in Dallas, Tex., succeeding the man he challenged for the 1960 nomination. He was elected to a full term by a landslide in 1964.
The Johnson's other daughter, Lynda,
and her husband, Charles Robb, were flying
to Texas from their home in Charlottesville,
Va.
The first Southerner to hold the presidency since 1865, Johnson was one of the strongest advocates of civil rights legislation, both during his more than two decades in Congress and while he was in the White House.
He proposed the voting rights act later
enacted by the 80th Congress. He also initiated the war on poverty and the Great Society, a collection of domestic social programs for many of which liberal Democrats had fought unsuccessfully since Franklin D. Roosevelt.
It was Roosevelt who was Johnson's political mentor.
"he was like a daddy to me," Johnson often said.
Johnson announced his plans for the Great Society in a commencement address at the University of Texas on May 30, 1964. "I intend to try and achieve a broad national consensus which can end obstruction and paralysis and liberate the energies of the nation for the work of the future."
In his inaugural address of 1985, one of the shoutest in history, *Dianne* viewed to overcome poverty, sickness and ignorance. And he told the world: "We aspire to make our dominion a dominant dominion over our fellow man, but man's dominion over tyranny and misery."
The first American troops were sent to South Vietnam in February of that year, however. Excalation of the war actually had no impact on their command and Communist boats allegedly attacked U.S. ships in the Gulf of Tonkin and Johnson gained congressional approval of a resolution granting him full support for "all military action to protect our armed forces."
In April, 1965 Johnson provoked a storm of criticism when he announced that 400 U.S. Marines had been sent into Santo Domingo to protect Americans caught in a
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Johnson Attends Truman Funeral . . . Was one of his last public appearances . . .
Kansan Photo by TIM WINTERS
Court Liberalizes Abortion
The state may interfere with this "right of privacy" only during the last three months, when the unborn child is developed enough to live outside the mother, the court ruled, 7-2.
WASHINGTON (AP)—The Supreme Court Monday granted American women the right to have medical abortions during the first six months of pregnancy.
The ruling struck down a Texas law that made it a crime for a doctor to end a pregnancy except "for the purpose of saving the life of the mother."
Thirty other states have similar laws. All presumably will become invalid.
At the same time, the court disapproved,
- 2-key provisions of a Georgia law that
Spring Enrollment Record Broken
A spring-semester record of 18,409 students were enrolled at the University of Kansas when classes started, William L. Kelly, registrar, announced Monday.
The spring figure, however, was a three per cent decrease of 578 students from the fall year.
The spring enrollment was an increase of 82 students over last spring's record enrollment, and an increase of 661 over the 1971 spring figure.
Kelly said he was not alarmed at the decrease of 578 students from last fall's first-day enrollment total because he expected a number of late enrollments.
Of the 18,469 KU students enrolled at the two campuses, 15,601 are at Lawrence and 2,868 are at Dartmouth.
"There are always more students in the fall than in the spring," Kelly said. "This is because there is a small number of info- students, many senior many seniors graduate in December."
Last semester 1,088 students enrolled
Last semester 6,253 students. Last spring 799
students enrolled later.
There was an increase of 73 women and a decrease of 64 men this spring on the Lawrence campus as compared to last year's figures, Kelly said.
Kelly said there was a decrease of 707 students on the Lawrence campus this year.
Kelly said final enrollment totals would not be available until after the 2020 day of classes, March 1, as ruled by the Kansas Board of Regents.
Kelly said enrollment at the Medical Center increased by 73 over last spring's
Ronald Hamilton, comptroller, said the amount of money collected for fees and the number of students who charged their fees would be released today.
CAB Ruling Threatens Youth Fares
Kelly said students enrolling between now and Jan. 31 would have to pay a $10 fine. Those enrolling between Feb. 1 and March 1 will be charged $25.
No student may enroll after March 2,
Kelly said.
Men still outnumber women, 10,202 to
6,959. Kelly is the ratio. The ratio is
decaying slowly.
The days of youth fare and family plan discounts for air travel may be numbered. Selective discounts may give way to reductions in regular fares.
Kansan Staff Writer
By ELAINE ZIMMERMAN
The Civil Aeronautics Board (CAB) rulded Dec. 7 that youth fares and family fares were discriminatory under the Federal Aviation Act of 1958. CAB gave no date for the elimination of discount fares, however. Cancellation of any discounts would come only after hearings on the overall rate structure.
A lobby has been formed to fight cancellation of youth discounts. The National Student Lobby and the Continental Marketing Corporation, a seller of youth cards, are sponsoring the Coalition to Retain Air Discount Fares (CRADF).
CRADF will primarily disseminate information and instigate congressional action.
LEROY HUNTINGTON, transportation industry for CAB, said Monday their limited availability made family fares and youth fares discriminatory. Age and race were the main factors, he said, and a large segment of the population is automatically excluded.
The savings of those using youth and family discounts create a burden for the regular fare traveler who supports the discount programs through high fares. Huntington emphasized that "unreasonableness" applied only to youth reservation and family plan discounts, not to youth standby.
The youth reservation discounts and family fares were found to be not only discriminatory, but also "unreasonable," in that they were economically unground. Not often been enough people traveling on the discounts who would not have traveled anyway.
THE DATE THAT cancellation of youth
and family discounts would go into effect
remains undetermined. Because the
discounts are a burden on those traveling in
regular fare, Huntington said, the
family discount probably would be accompanied by a
reduction in regular fares.
Hearings concerning cancellation of discounts and modification of the entire rate structure will take time. Huntington said, "We will work with you to complete before the end of the summer."
The CAB placed an expiration date of 18 months or less on all discount fares. Huntington said this caused groundless concern that the fares would be eliminated within 18 months. The only reason for the expiration date, said, was to insure that the economic discomfort of the fares would come under review at least every 18 months.
HUNTINGTON SAID the airlines' reaction had been varied. Some airlines
favor discontinuance of discounts, but others are opposed. A few carriers advocate elimination of discounts only on short airlines or airlines available for the airlines if discounted, be said.
Spokesmen for Trans World and American airlines declined to comment on the CAB announcement before the board decided that date for the cancellation of discounts.
Other airline officials in Kansas City and Topeka were unfamiliar with the detritals of the CAB ruling and said the discounts would continue until the airlines were informed
Huntington said that carriers would lose money in the short run if rate discounts were eliminated. If carriers had eliminated youth standby discounts in 1971, he said, it would have cost $460 million in collation ad "Discover America" fares would have cost airlines $38,365,000.
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Justice Harry A. Blackmun spoke for the major in rulings, which took more than two years to reach. His opinions, running 72 pages, were supported with medical, religious and philosophical as well as legal references.
THE COURT SAID this unconstitutionally kept citizens of other states from using Georgia's medical facilities and unduly restricted the rights of pregnant women.
Similar laws in 13 other states will become invalid as a result.
made medical abortions available only to residents of the state and said two additional doctors must concur with the woman's physician.
"The court apparently values the convenience of the pregnant mother more than the continued existence and development of her potential life which she carries." White said.
BUT BLACKMUN, for the majority, said the state could cause a pregnant woman considerable harm by not allowing her to have an abortion. Additional, unwanted children could force a distressful life upon her, he said.
"Mental and physical health may be taxed by child care," wrote Blackman, the 63-year-old former house counsel for the Maye clinic in Rochester, Minn.
For single, pregnant women, he said, there are 'the additional difficulties and stresses' that come with pregnancy.
On the other hand, Blackman said, the mortality rate for women having abortions in the early stages of pregnancy apparently is lower or lower than the rate for normal birthbirth.
THEREFORE, BLACKMUN SAI, said, a pregnant woman does not have "an absolute constitutional right to an abortion on her demand," the state cannot interfere with the judgment of the woman and her doctor in the first three months.
In the second three-month period, all the state may be, he said, is to regulate abortion procedures in ways that are "reasonably related to maternal health," such as supervising the licensing of physicians, clinics and hospitals.
But when the fetus becomes viable after the 24th to 28th week, state regulation to protect the unborn child is important and logical, he said.
UNTIL THE court acted, women were free to have doctors perform abortions virtually on demand in only four states, New York, Alaska, Hawaii, and Washington, and in the District of Columbia.
"If the state is interested in protecting fetal life after viability, it may go so far as to prescribe abortion during that period except when it is necessary to preserve the life or health of the mother," Blackmun wrote.
Blackman's opinion in the Texas abortion case pointed out that when most criminal abortion laws were first enacted, in the second half of the 19th century, an abortion
was hazardous. But, he said, with the development of antiseptic techniques, the process of dilation and curettage have become more reliable that any danger has largely disappeared.
He also rejected the idea that a fetus had legal rights which must be protected by the state. Blackman said there was no basis for that theory in the Constitution and "the unborn have never been recognized in the law as person in the whole sense."
THEREFORE, HE SAID, the woman's right to privacy must be upheld against any state interest until the interest becomes compelling, generally during the last three months of pregnancy when mortality in abortion ceases or marshes mortality in childbirth.
Meanwhile, in a 5-3 decision, the court barred judicial review of the President's authority to classify government documents as secret.
Rep. Patsy Mink, D-Hawaii, and 32 other members of Congress had sued to win release of government reports about an Anthracite nuclear test on Anchita Island in 1971.
Justice White, for the majority, said that Congress did not intend "to subject executive security classifications to judicial review" or anyone who might seek to question them."
THE RULING involved the first interpretation by the court of the Freedom of Information Act of 1970. Justices William O. Jarrett, Jr., and Thurgood Marshall disentenced.
In a 6-3 decision, the court held that grand juries may require witnesses to give testimony.
The Fourth Amendment prohibition against unreasonable searches and seizures does not apply to "physical characteristics which are corroborated" (see Chapter 15), Justice Potter Stewart, concerning the cases from Chicago. Again, Douglas, Brennan and Marshall dissented.
Bulletin
TOPEKA (AP)—The body of a man, apparently the sixth victim shot to death as a Topека man went on a mission in Iraq where he was nightmailed, was discovered early today.
Police said the body was found in a closet at the home in North Topeka where the alleged assailant, Ronald Hawkins, an unwelcome law and two other persons.
Police I. L. Raymond Rundell said Jordan then ran two houses down the street and wounded a woman there, ran on to the next house and killed a woman, then ran into the next block and killed himself.